Citations with the tag: PARANOIA

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Presents a transcript of a testimony entered in a Florida court that recognizes the qualification of a sexologist as an expert in a sex-offender trial, thereby serving notice to all sexologists nationwide as to where their future forensic responsibility lies. Symptoms and causes of sexual...

Reports on American women afflicted with everyday paranoia. Irrational or excessive fears as symptoms; Non-relation to clinical paranoia; Relation to mild anxiety; Susceptibility of women in society; Stress on women due to multiple roles.

Describes how an erotic paranoid reaction, when linked to fantasies of benign conspiratorial persecution by the hospital and the milieu, might merge as the grandiose messiah-complex. Delusional love and psychosis; More.

Describes how a paranoid patient, having feelings of guilt and fear and a messianic grandiosity, may construct a teleology based on cosmic bisexuality, by which meaning may be given to his or her suffering.

Suggests that paranoid phenomena is influenced by pathological narcissism. Investigation of the schools of psychoanalysis and developments in the understanding of narcissism; Roles of the ego-ideal, self-objects and deficits in the capacity for self-determination.

Focuses on problems faced by the author for having mice in her house. Feelings of the author on witnessing the execution of mice in her kitchen; Ways adopted by the author to eliminate mice from her house; Comparison drawn between mice and rats by the author.

The author offers insights about secrecy and keepers of secrets. Inner turmoil is usually experienced by a person who is secretive about negative information. Several researchers revealed that keepers of such secret experience anxiety and inhibition. The author also believes that secrecy applies...

Identifies the factors associated with paranoid symptoms in a community sample of older adults in North Carolina. Measurement of paranoid symptoms; Results of cross-sectional analyses; Regression on hearing problems.

Editorial. Comments on the manifestations of paranoia in the American society. Concept of paranoia; Rejection of the claim of John K. Wilson, a leader of Teachers for a Democratic Society, that the right has won the culture wars; Paranoid style in American politics; Radical's view on the...

Reviews the existing literature on paranoid personality disorder and synthesizes its various descriptive aspects into a multifaceted profile of the condition. Relation between paranoid personality and paranoid schizophrenia; Characterization of paranoid personality; Psychotic paranoid...

Relates the workplace experience of the author. Paranoia in the workplace; Collection of total volumes of discount rates; Provision of an official request to Corporate HR for an executive development and health program.

Comments on the application of the paranoid style by the Presbyterian Laymen and the Confessing Church Movement. Context of the paranoid style; Reference to the Henny Penny children's story; Derivation of the panoid style from the book 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays,'...

Presents a treatment approach for patients with paranoid phenomena. Suffering from pathological narcissism; Excessive trust in others; Subjugation of self to the plans of others; Warding off of projections; Renewal of initiative.

Focuses on the paranoia of the fundamentalist protestants. Details on the thrilling events in Palestine; Effects of liberal Christianity on Jewish scholar; Requirements in accommodating Christian culture.

The phenomenon of Islamophobia has now surfaced as a factor in American politics. While disturbing and damaging of people's lives and reputations, the phenomenon is not unique. It can be seen as but the latest eruption of paranoid political thinking that periodically arises in American history....

Deals with the encounter of Katherine Routledge with the mysteries of Easter Island. Personal background of Routledge; Information on Mana, a state-of-the-art yacht christened with the Polynesian name for 'spiritual power'; Discussion on her eccentric behavior which grew into public displays of...

The author views the manic defense as a combined attempt to control persecutory objects and to save them from the aggressive forces within the ego. Rather than strictly a manifestation of depressive guilt, it is also a defense against the fear of destroying the object and subsequently the self...

The presence of racists and anti-Semites has become increasingly apparent during the past decade, particularly as they turn to the Internet to quickly and inexpensively disseminate their vitriolic discourse. This study examines the on-line rhetoric of one group within this larger movement...

Abstract This paper offers an account of research into 16 cases of clients suffering from severe paranoid difficulties, in which their predicaments are hypothesised in terms of Freud's original theory of the linkage of the repression of homosexual impulse, and the defence against it of paranoia....

Reports the implication of paranoia over germs on the marketing of cosmetics. Proclamation of the anti-bacterial capability of toiletries; Factors compounding the paranoia; Speculations on treatment of the situation in movies.

Reports that American psychology has changed for the better and certain menacing uncertainties have resolved themselves. Examples of American paranoia outlined; Physics of paranoia under laboratory conditions; What paranoia induces; America's tradition of political paranoia; Reference to...

Comments on the plays on erotic paranoia and wife murder. Main reason for the murder of wives by husbands; Consideration of honor and vengeance code as a dramatic convention; Classification of wife murder done by the husband as a petty treason.

Examines the prevalence of paranoia on immigrants in Great Britain. Risk of immigrants in developing psychoses; Definition of delusion; Comparison between the diagnostic features of the immigrants and the Britons on paranoid delusions.

The article describes the case of a 35-year-old woman who developed paranoia while receiving varenicline for smoking cessation. Her paranoia gradually resolved over a two-week period following discontinuation of varenicline. When it was restarted at her request, her symptoms came back prompting...

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the author discusses several articles published within the issue including an assessment of paranoid thoughts in children, the value of psychopathology to psychiatry and systematic review of the psychiatric ward as a therapeutic space.